Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Interface design of wmllint

2007-09-13 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Patrick Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: While I'm perfectly capable of maintaining wmllint, I'd rather not start adding to my responsibilities. Honestly, I'm surprised you would resort to such an ultimatum / threat considering it was your foresight to hedge for this likelihood in the first place.

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Interface design of wmllint

2007-09-12 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Patrick Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Not quite true... radius upconversion, for example violates NTC. Aarggh. The one transformation I didn't write. Please fix the transformation to have NTC. Otherwise I'll have to make wmllint throw a warning every time it's done, or (see below) disable it

[Wesnoth-dev] Interface design of wmllint

2007-09-11 Thread Eric S. Raymond
There have been a couple of suggestions on IRC that the interface design of wmllint should change. Specifically, it has been suggested that: (1) WML files should be version-stamped, and/or (2) wmllint transformations should be explicitly invoked by command-line switches. I will now explain why